Georgetown College’s Student–Run Newspaper
August 28, 2019
Volume CXXXVIV Issue 12
Opening Convocation kicks A Letter from the off fall semester 2019-2020 new GC President
By ROBERT BIRD
keting major, and is heavily involved on campus. He is a member of the football team This past Tuesday, Georgeand the Kappa Alpha Psi fratown College hosted its 2019 ternity, just to name a few his Opening Convocation, which many involvements. officially kicked off the In his opening address, 2019-20 school year. Zach set some of his goals Opening Convocation for this school year as SGA was held in the John Hill President, including getChapel, and was very ting everyone on campus well attended by stuinvolved in SGA activities, dents, faculty, staff and and trying to be a voice for alumni. This Convocation every student on campus. in particular was an extra In concluding his opening special day, as newly remarks, Zach then introhired President William duced the other members A. Jones was given the of SGA and they were very prestigious honor of given an extremely warm giving the Convocation welcome by those in attenAddress. dance. To kick off this special One of the biggest day, Professor Andrea highlights of each year’s Ratliff, lecturer of mathOpening Convocation ematics, gave an invocais Dr. Rosemary Allen’s tion prayer, which was introduction of new facGEORGETOWN COLLEGE followed by the singing ulty members and her Dr. Rosemary Allen presents Dr. Roger presentation of the John of the hymn “Great is Ward with the Manning Award. Thy Faithfulness.” The Walker Manning Distinhymn was led under the direc- opening remarks, Dr. Curtis guished Mentor and Teacher tion of new Choral Director Sandberg, Vice President of Award. There were several and Visiting Professor Chris- Student Life and Dean of Stu- new faculty members recogtopher Powell. After the con- dents, introduced the 2019- nized by Dr. Allen, including clusion of the hymn, President 20 SGA President, Mr. Zach the previously... Jones welcomed everyone to Dampier. Zach is a junior MarContinued on Page 2 Staff Writer
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this momentous occasion, and reminded of the championship level excellence that comes as a result of being a Georgetown College Tiger. Following President Jones’
GC Welcomes Largest Incoming Class Since 2011 page 3
Impressive Start for GC Men’s Soccer page 5
national championships from last year: one in forensic Dear Georgetown College accounting and the other in Students, men’s basketball. And, our faculty, staff, and coaches Welcome back! You help are remarkable professionals to make Georgetown College who are highly committed to exceptional. your success. It is great to be a This fall, we are welcoming Georgetown College Tiger! one of the largest new student As the new president of groups in nearly a decade. Georgetown, I am committed Retention is up from last year. to ensuring that we continue We have a strong and support- to offer a championship-level ive board of trustees—and so education of both the mind many of our alumni support and heart. the college with their gifts. To more specifically get We are celebrating two at this aim, I have been busy working with the Executive Cabinet and the new Expanded Cabinet to identify a set of core values for the cabinet’s work together. Mission statements are often about the who, what and why of a college, an organization or a business. A vision statement outlines where an organization hopes to go. A set of core values spells out “the how.” The cabinet has identified GEORGETOWN COLLEGE 10 core values for this first President Jones welcomes the year. By PRESIDENT WILLIAM JONES
freshman during orientation.
May It Please the Court: Mock Trial page 6
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Appalachia is Still Being Forgotten page 11
